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Sunlight1/09/2009 12:49:53 pm PST

re: #89 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Also, the local Arabs sold huge tracts of land to Jewish settlers because it was “worthless” (i.e. they werent willing or able to make it worth anything). It was only after the Jews made it into something that the Arabs rethought their position.

Do you by chance know a reference that has a map with who sold (and was it theirs to sell, e.g., at the end of the Ottoman E. the Turks selling the land out from under illegal residents onsite) and who bought for how $much… I read an article about that once, that most of the land was paid for during various aliyot. But I have never seen any sort of documentary or book on it.